The academic literature on processes of globalization comprises in its theoretical and empirical studies an extensive scope of aspects of contemporary world affairs. Through highly contested debates in the past couple of decades, scholars aimed to define and explore its features, sources and implications in light of various trends in contemporary world affairs. Consequently, the study of global politics focuses on the arguably changing roles of the nation-state as a central political actor in world politics on one hand, and on various transformations of the international system as a political structure on the other. Less attention, however, has been devoted to theorizing the ways through which globalization processes have affected patterns of interaction between states - namely international relations. This paper presents the theoretical question how processes of globalization have affected inter-state relations and practices and thus suggests a conceptual framework to scrutinize contemporary patterns of international relations as manifestations of processes of political adaptations. It argues – based on revision of Rosenau’s 1980 study of political adaptation – that states, both individually and more importantly collectively, adapt common patterns of interactions in response to constitutive effects of globalization. In this respect it strives to depict the international aspect of global politics – the globalized international society. These arguments are explored theoretically through the paradigmatic lenses of social constructivism and the English School of IR and empirically through the diplomatic efforts to legally ban landmines in the framework of the 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction.
